{"id":151076,"date":"2026-05-09T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151076"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:00:07","slug":"rare-earth-strategy-provides-opportunities-for-africa-as-us-attempts-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151076","title":{"rendered":"Rare earth strategy provides \u2018opportunities for Africa\u2019 as US attempts to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US is shifting strategy to fund local African processing and mining infrastructure after recognising it cannot yet process the critical minerals it is racing to secure from the continent to counter China.<br \/>\nTom Haslett, managing director of policy for critical minerals at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), said that unlike China, which had \u201csignificant industry backing for both processing and downstream manufacturing\u201d, the US and Europe did not yet have that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352730\/rare-earth-strategy-provides-opportunities-africa-us-attempts-counter-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US is shifting strategy to fund local African processing and mining infrastructure after recognising it cannot yet process the critical minerals it is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}